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First Impressions: American Sociology’s Early Encounters with Pentecostalism

open access: yes, 2013
Though sometimes presented as a recent development in sociology of religion, the convergence of Pentecostalism with Weberian principles is as old as both Pentecostalism and Max Weber himself.
Nogueira-Godsey, T
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African Witchcraft and Pentecostalism

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Theology and Philosophy
This paper focuses upon African witchcraft and the impact of Christianity on this. After discussing the notion of mystical mentality, it examines the role of Pentecostalism with its emphasis on evil spirits and deliverance on the perpetuation of witchcraft convictions in Africa using Ghana as an illustrative example.
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Power-Purity Pneumatology for African Pentecostalism

open access: yesAfrican Theological Journal for Church and Society
Africa once again occupies a strategic place in the history of Christianity as one of its chief centres when the religion is somewhat receding in the West.
Abel A. Alamu
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Pentecostal theology regarding disability in African neo-Pentecostalism

open access: yesIn die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi
The Pentecostal approach to disability is currently informed by the imposed healing, deliverance, and performance of other miracles, particularly among neo-Pentecostals in Africa. This is also informed by the neo-Pentecostal pastor’s radical approach to the aspect of healing in Pentecostal theology.
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A YEAST IN THE FLOUR: PENTECOSTALISM AS THE AFRICAN REALISATION OF THE GOSPEL

open access: yes, 2017
The paper discusses the contributions of Pentecostalism to the development of the Christian faith in Ghana and Africa. It argues that Pentecostalism is what fulfils the aspirations and quest of Ghanaian (African) Christians in their search for authentic ...
Joseph Quayesi-Amakye   +1 more
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Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: Empowerment, Gender and Development in an African Movement

open access: yes, 2021
In Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism, the fourteen contributors to this multidisciplinary collection reflect on how Pentecostalism contributes to the empowerment of marginalised societies, how it empowers women in particular through the ...

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Ritual Healing Innovations in African Pentecostalism

open access: yes
Ritual healing and deliverance creativities and innovations in African Pentecostal (AP) churches have become a phenomenon if not a hallmark of African Pentecostalism in sub-Saharan Africa, yet there is little contextual knowledge known that informs such ...
Kuloba, R.Wabyanga
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Investigating African pentecostalism: the problems, prospects and rewards of a multi-sited ethnography

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Though undoubtedly one of the preferred approaches in the study of Religion, especially in cross-cultural and multinational contexts, the prospects of Multi-Sited Ethnography (MSE) present many intricacies and challenges when following some study ...
Kuloba, R. Wabyanga
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